#roadrunners

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[snototter]

A greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) does a great run across a road in the USA

by Wendy Miller

[uwmspeccoll]

Feathursday Wood Engravings

Here are four wood-engraved birds and a nested feather from the Fifth Triennial Exhibition, 2024-2026 of the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), the national organization for American wood engravers, juried by our head of Special Collections Max Yela. From top to bottom:

Snow Bird (we think this is a Junco), 4"x6", by Indiana printmaker Jody Bruns.

The Magpie & The Rat, 6"x4", by Pennsylvania visual artist Stacie Bumgarner.

Raptor (looks like a Cooper's Hawk), 5"x7", by New Hampshire wood engraver R. P. Hale.

Gotcha (definitely a Roadrunner), 4"x3", by Kentucky artist Terry Norvell.

Nestle, 3.5" x 3.6", by Wisconsin wood engraver Tony Drehfal.

View other posts from the WEN 5th Triennial Exhibition.

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[keeskiwi]

Cuckootober Day 12 - Lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox)

What if we chibi-fied the American southwest's Greater roadrunner? And made it so so cute with big ole eyes and it was so cute and I loved it?

[ricky-yaps]

Roadrunner appreciation post

Fun fact: The oldest roadrunner fossil is over 30 thousand years old

[spinus-pinus]

Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

8/9/2024 Santa Cruz County, Arizona

Tom Mills via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC

[antiqueanimals]

Louisiana Conservationist, July-August, 1973. Illustration by Murrell Butler.

Internet Archive

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Lesser Roadrunner

Photo: Ad Konings

"Slightly smaller version of the familiar cartoon Greater Roadrunner, but usually the two species do not occur in the same places. Favors dry brushy woodland and overgrown weedy fields in tropical lowlands and foothills. Can be very elusive, but at other times runs out in the road or sits quietly sunning itself on a fence post or bush top in the early morning. Note that the center of the throat and breast are plain rich buffy, without the dense dark streaking of Greater Roadrunner."

- eBird

[dumbsterchild]

Happy Halloween!

Can you guess what they are?

Here are different versions of them. He originally was colored with blue eyes, but then I changed them black because juvenile roadrunners have black. They have a yellow rim around the puples as they age.

And green is his Canon colour.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

#Velociraptor was effectively a roadrunner with extra knives ~ @murakel

You're right, and I bet Wile E. Coyote would have had second thoughts about going after that roadrunner

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Birds

Strisores. This clade is made up of various small birds, such as swifts, hummingbirds, and nightjars.

Cuculiformes. This order is made up of cukoos, including roadrunners.

[meklarian]

Greater Roadrunner Sweetwater Wetlands Park Tucson, Arizona, USA November, 2019

This was my first sighting where I had a shot at getting a photo, so any port in a storm, etc. etc. etc.

(more roadrunners here)

[randomfoggytiger]

How might the episode in which Scully gets the alien in her spine been different if Mulder was around at the time? I love Dogget, and he's a badass. I just wonder if Mulder would have seen it coming or how he would have handled her violation differently.

Not trying to evade this question, but @ghostbustermelanieking nailed that premise completely in her fic Roadrunners. It's an all-time favorite of mine:

She groans softly as he moves her, but she leans into him, more willing than he’s ever seen her in this type of situation. One hand gripping his shirt hard, her face pressed into his neck. “Are you okay,” she mumbles, and he wants to laugh at the absurdity of it. He doesn’t remember a thing, doesn’t know if it was painful, but he knows that he never should’ve left her. He never should’ve gone alone.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

Sam: I'm not Scully, you're Scully.

Dean: No, I'm Mulder. You're a red-headed woman.

She drives an Impala, Dean.

[ricky-yaps]

My grandparents have this cool ass roadrunner rug and they’re planning on redecorating the room it’s in and I’m so tempted to ask for it

Like this fucks dude

[spinus-pinus]

Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

1/24/2024 Falcon State Park, Texas

Matt Felperin via iNaturalist, CC-BY